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See also K. R. Hagenbach, Compendium of the History of Doctrines (T. and T.
Clark ed.) vol. 1, pp. 234-237, 405, 408; vol. 2, pp. 135-150, 308, 309; Charles Elliott,
Delineation of Roman Catholicism, b. 2, ch. 12; The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 12, art.
"Purgatory."
Page 59. Indulgences.--For a detailed history of the doctrine of indulgences see
Mandell Creighton, A History of the Papacy from The Great Schism to the Sack of
Rome (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1911), vol. 5, pp. 56-64, 71; W. H. Kent,
"Indulgences," The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 7, pp. 783-789; H. C. Lea, A History of
Auricular Confession and Indulgences in the Latin Church (Philadelphia: Lea
Brothers and Co., 1896); Thomas M. Lindsay, A History of the Reformation (New York;
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917), vol. 1, pp. 216-227; Albert Henry Newman, A Manual
of Church History (Philadelphia: The American Baptist Publication Society, 1953),
vol. 2, pp. 53, 54, 62; Leopold Ranke, History of the Reformation in Germany (2d
London ed., 1845), translated by Sarah Austin, vol. 1, pp. 331, 335337, 343-346;
Preserved Smith, The Age of the Reformation (New York: Henry Holt and Company,
1920), pp. 23-25, 66.
On the practical outworkings of the doctrine of indulgences during the period of
the Reformation see a paper by Dr. H. C. Lea, entitled, "Indulgences in Spain,"
published in Papers of the American Society of Church History, vol. 1, pp. 129-171. Of
the value of this historical sidelight Dr. Lea says in his opening paragraph: "Unvexed
by the controversy which raged between Luther and Dr. Eck and Silvester Prierias,
Spain continued tranquilly to follow in the old and beaten path, and furnishes us with
the incontestable official documents which enable us to examine the matter in the
pure light of history."
Page 59. The Mass.--For the doctrine of the mass as set forth at the Council of
Trent see The Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent in Philip Schaff, Creeds of
Christendom, vol. 2, pp. 126-139, where both Latin and English texts are given. See
also H. G. Schroeder, Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent (St. Louis, Missouri:
B. Herder, 1941).
For a discussion of the mass see The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol 5, art.
"Eucharist," by Joseph Pohle, page 572 ff.; Nikolaus Gihr, Holy Sacrifice of the Mass,
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